The World is Ugly

I woke up extra early the next day, my birthday. I wanted to make everyone breakfast in bed. I know it sounds stupid to wake up early on your birthday, but I mean-- these assholes have been housing me for 6 months. It's the least I can do for them. I tiptoed downstairs and to the kitchen.

Now the problem was cooking.

I can't cook for shit.

I grabbed some eggs from the fridge and cracked them into a bowl. I think that's how you make scrambled eggs? God dammit I don't even know. While I whisked the eggs I grabbed some pancake mix I saw. The directions on the box made absolutely no sense. I let out a sigh before realizing it was waaay too loud and covered my mouth. Maybe I'll just stick with eggs.

~*~ TIME ELAPSE ~*~

I had finally finished making eggs for all of them. Hope they like them scrambled 'cause there's no way in HELL I'm gonna touch a stove again even to make them another egg. I had nearly set the house on fire, like, 5 times. I poured some orange juice into 4 glasses and arranged them all next to their respective plates. Okay, now the problem is getting upstairs without dropping everything. I found an old cake pan and used it as a tray to carry Ray and Gee's food. In all my worry about dropping the food, I didn't hear the footsteps and whispers behind me. I felt someone pick me up by the waist. I was about to scream before I tipped my head back to see Gee's jet black hair. I felt more hands grab my limbs. Gerard and the rest began yelling Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs. When they finished, they threw me on the couch, all laughing. Gerard gave me a peck on the cheek. "Get dressed, loser, we're going shopping."
"I made breakfast for you guys!" I whined, motioning to the plates and glasses. I looked over and Frankie was stuffing the eggs in his mouth. I giggled.
"Frank's apparently already taken care of that."

~*~ ANOTHER TIME ELAPSE ~*~

"Why are all the models in their photos so thin?" Gee asked as I dragged him through Forever 21.
"I don't know. Kinda puts everyone in the mindset girls have to be thin, which pisses me off to no end." A red, ruffly skirt caught my eye and I shoved it into my bag. Gerard said all my clothes were his treat, so I'm buying every cute thing in sight. We passed by the bathing suits and Gerard tugged on my arm. "What?"
"It's gonna get warm soon. You need a swim suit."
"Are you telling me that so you can see me in something other than pajamas or band merch and jeans?" He smirked.
"Maybe."

We had been dating for nearly half a year and we still hadn't seen eachother's bare or almost-bare bodies. Most he'd seen of me was my stomach on the Friday night. I looked through the swim suits until I found a cute one. He followed me to the dressing room area and waited for me as I changed.

~*~ GERARD POV ~*~

I waited while she changed into her bikini.

I haven't seen much of her body, to be honest. The only time I saw something other than her arms or legs was on the Friday night, when I had to lift up her shirt to look at her stomach. That's it. Maybe if the lights had been on when we... then I would've seen more. Dammit, I am a grown-ass man, why can't I say, "sex," even in my head? After a few minutes she opened the door to the dressing room and walked out.

Holy shit did she have a nice body. Yet unhealed bruises and scars riddled her stomach and thighs, but she was absolutely beautiful. I think she realized I was staring, as her face grew extremely red, and she looked away. "Like it?" she asked.
"Like it? I love it." I chuckled. Her eyes lit up.
"R-Really?"
"Of course, why wouldn't I?" She smiled and ran back into the dressing room. She came back out a minute later with the swim suit on a hanger.
"C'mon, let's go buy it."

~*~ ANOTHER TIME ELAPSE ~*~

We ended our shopping day with buying almost everything from every restaurant in the food court.
"We're gonna have food for the next month or so..." Ray groaned after he finished his 3rd bag of McDonald's.
Mikey cleared his throat. He looked over to Frankie, who was sitting next to him. "Me and Frank got something to say..." He took a deep breath. "We're dating."
We immediately broke out into smiles and congratulations and hugs. I gotta hand it to my little brother, he was brave to tell us. To tell anyone. The new couple eventually walked into a nearby store to buy trinkets for eachother. Ray followed soon after.
"So, uh, Rose..." I stuttered after a while.
"Hm?" She turned to me.
"I, uh, got you a present. For both V-Day and your birthday..." God, I was so nervous. I pulled out a small black box and opened it, showing her the infinity ring I had bought inside.
She smiled. "Gerard! Thank you... wait, you're not--"
"Proposing to you? Oh, hell no. Course not." I really wasn't, I just thought it would be cute to make it look like I was. She leaned in for a kiss before putting the ring on her finger.
"This is, like, a really pretty ring. Where did you even get it?"
"The Dollar Store." I sarcastically replied. Her smile grew even wider. I realized several people were staring at us, mostly smiling. One of them pointed between me and Rose and gave a thumbs-up. "I DIDN'T PROPOSE TO HER!" I yelled and they all turned around. She giggled.
"I love you, Hazel Grace," she whispered. I chuckled remembering the conversation we had a few months ago about The Fault in Our Stars.
"Love you more, Gus," I replied.
Eventually, Frank, Mikey, and Ray came back from their store with bags upon bags of little trinkets for eachother. We carried our several take-out boxes of food to Frankie's car and went home.

It was already super late when we got home, like 10, so we said goodnight to the couple and Ray and I went upstairs with Rose.

~*~ ROSE POV ~*~

"So, when's the New York trip again?" I asked him.
"June 7 to 21."
"Two whole fuckin' weeks?" I nodded. "Wow. I've never really traveled before, well I mean other than coming here. There's gonna be so many things we can do!"
"Well, a lot of our time is going to be spent recording. They said you can come with us to the studio and watch us record. But I can think of some other things we can do..." He brought his lips to my neck, leaving bitemarks all over. I let out a moan and he pulled me on top of him.
"Sh-Should I be worried about being loud?" I asked. Just then, a loud moan came from downstairs. I could tell it was Frankie.
"Guess not."
He continued to leave hickeys and marks on my neck until I started tugging on his shirt. He smirked and pulled away to take it off. I couldn't help but stare. He had a really nice body. He got up to turn off the main light but left his bedside lamp on, which left just enough light for us to see eachother. I took off my shirt and pants and threw them on the floor.
He started staring again, his eyes gliding over my body. I did the same to him.
"I don't know how someone as hot as you fell for such a plain-looking girl like me," I blurted out.
"Don't ever say that about yourself." he replied. "You're fucking beautiful and you should know that." I smiled.
"N-No one's ever told me that before."
"I'm surprised." He slid his pants off and pinned me to the bed. He reached behind my back to undo my bra and threw it across the room. It hit something and there was a thud. He giggled. He did the same thing with my underwear.
I was now completely naked, in front of the person I absolutely loved. I was extremely self-conscious about my body, but with him, all those anxieties were non-existent. He slid off his boxers and then both of us were in the nude.
And then he entered me.
We hadn't done this in months, and that first time we did wasn't exactly ideal. I had to keep quiet, since his brother was inches away, but now I could be as loud and expressive I wanted. I let out a loud moan and he smiled. He began to thrust and that's when I got really loud.
God, I must've embarrassed Gee.
I wrapped my arms around his neck, screaming his name. As we went on, his grunts became louder and louder.
"G-Gerard... I-I l-love y... you..." I managed to croak between moans and screams.
"I l-love you, too, Rose. So much."
"Ge-Ge-Gerard, I'm..."
"Say my name." I had never heard him talk like that. It was... kinda hot.
"Gerard..."
Our conversations during sex sounded like it was ripped from a porno.
"Rose, I'm--!"
We both released and just took in the smell of eachother. He smelled the same as always: coffee and nicotine. I probably smelled like sweat and male body wash and eggs.
I eventually fell asleep to the beating of his heart

Me and him woke up at the same time the next morning. I was gonna get up to get us some cereal, but my legs collapsed almost immediately.
"You okay babe?" he asked as he helped me up onto the bed.
"I think I'm just... sore. From last night." I winked at him and he started blushing. He picked me up and carried me downstairs. There, everyone was sitting at the couch. The second they saw us they all started cheering. "Only woke up the whole fucking neighborhood!" Frankie yelled.
"Speak for yourself," I snapped, remembering when I heard his moans last night. He started blushing. That shut him up.

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